Toronto · September 12–14, 2026
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This September, the CEOs of BlackRock, Blackstone and other representatives of the global 1% are coming to Toronto at the invitation of Prime Minister Mark Carney.
His summit in downtown Toronto is designed to simultaneously auction off Canadian public resources and infrastructure — from our airports and water systems, to highways and ports — and finance destructive megaprojects like AI data centers, weapons factories, and toxic pipelines.
We refuse to let our futures be decided behind closed doors by the 200 richest CEOs on earth. We're holding our own summit on September 12-13. And on September 14th movements and communities across this city are coming together to crash theirs. We refuse to let the global 1% descend on our city unopposed.
- Conference · Sat, Sept 12, 5-7pm
- Keynote featuring Naomi Klein and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, with musical guest Carsie Blanton.
- Teach-In · Sun, Sept 13, 9:30am-4pm
- All-day teach-in with organizers, researchers and front-line activists from across movements.
- Resistance Concert · Sun, Sept 13, 4:30-6pm
- An evening of food and music to close out the teach-in.
- Crash Carney's Summit · Mon, Sept 14, 6pm
- A cross-movement mass rally, march, and protest at the summit's opening.
OCAD University, 100 McCaul St, Toronto
OCAD University, 100 McCaul St, Toronto
Grange Park, Toronto
Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto
Free to attend - PWYC donation optional
Organizing the Many to Defeat the Money
While CEOs and foreign investors gather at a luxury hotel downtown to buy up what remains of our shared public infrastructure, we will be planning the fightback at the “Many versus the Money” counter-summit at OCAD University.
Convened by the Council of Canadians, 8th Fire Rising and World BEYOND War, the counter-summit will open with a keynote conference featuring journalist Naomi Klein (author of End Times Fascism) and U.S. scholar and activist Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation) on Saturday, September 12 at 5pm. They will be joined by a special musical guest, folk singer Carsie Blanton.
On Sunday, September 13, the counter-summit will continue with an all-day teach-in, bringing together organizers, researchers and front-line activists from various movements (labour, Indigenous, tenants, climate, anti-war, migrant rights, Palestine solidarity, and others).
Panels will look at the role these corporate elites play in the worsening crises working-class people face and how the many can organize to defeat the money.
The counter-summit will end on Sunday evening with a Resistance Concert in Grange Park featuring a range of performers, vendors, and cultural activities.
On Monday September 14, as Carney’s privatization summit starts, we’ll be there to greet it. We will join a broad swathe of movements, communities, and organizations to gather en masse for a major rally, march and protest against Carney’s summit, starting at Nathan Phillips Square at 6PM.
The weekend’s counter-summit and Monday’s protest will also build momentum for upcoming mobilizations in Toronto like the March for Migrant Justice (September 20) and the Grassy Narrows River Run (September 23).
This September, let’s give the 1% the welcome they deserve and let them know Canada is NOT for sale!
A Coalition of Movements
Convened By
Council of Canadians · 8th Fire Rising · World Beyond War
Hosted by the Art & Social Change Program at OCAD University